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Amnesty International has written to the Ukrainian authorities urging them not to return former Prime Minister Abdulmalik Abdullodzhonov to Tajikistan where he would be at risk of torture and other grave human rights violations. Amnesty International is also urging the Ukrainian authorities to immediately release Abdulmalik Abdullodzhonov. Abdulmalik Abdullodzhonov was arrested in Borispol...

Abdurahmon Dodov, a former investigator with the police station in Dushanbe’s Shohmansour district, has been charged with negligence that led to the death of detainee and been sentenced to two years in a settlement-colony (the prototype for the ‘open prisons’ that exist in many Western European countries). The Shohmansour district court passed the sentence on Abdurahmon Dodov on February 12...

Central Asian rights activists who gathered in Kiev on February 6 for the forum of human rights organizations of the region “Solidarity, Cooperation, Support” have expressed their concern about the possible extradition of former Tajik Prime Minister Abdumalik Abdullojonov to Tajikistan. A statement released on February 7, in particular, says that extradition of Abdullojonov to Tajikistan, “...

Another criminal case on torture was launched in Tajikistan, while the offender continues to hold his position. Ruqia Haydarova, a resident Isfara whose son became a victim of the police officers’ actions had reported to “Asia Plus” news agency that a criminal case as launched by the Sughd regional Prosecutor Office on the article 143 Part 2 (torture) of the Criminal Code against the Head of...